Utilizing DALI technology, Ringtail can offer both a full Addressable Emergency Lighting Solution, and also a full range of luminaires that can be incorporated in existing DALI networks and building management systems.
DALI is an acronym that stands for Digital Addressable Lighting Interface and is a protocol set out in the technical standard IEC 62386. DALI is an international standard set out to guarantee the compatibility of products from different manufacturers.
After the initial installation, there is a legal requirement for the building occupiers, owners and nominated responsible person(s) to ensure that the emergency lighting system within a building is tested and maintained in accordance with BS5266 - Code of practice for emergency lighting of premises. The associated maintenance and testing labour costs have resulted in the development of fully addressable emergency lighting solutions. These addressable systems perform the necessary scheduled tests in accordance with BS5266, each luminaire then reports back to the central panel or computer with the test results. If there are any malfunctions found with each individual luminaire, then the specific fault is highlighted at the centralised monitoring point, with the unique address of the luminaire at fault. These systems have an increased initial cost, but can be heavily justified with short payback periods. The DALI addressable emergency lighting systems enable a lighting designer or planner to assemble a full addressable system with the advantage of the DALI protocol enabling a mixture of manufacturer’s emergency luminaires on each addressable system.
Ringtail DALI Luminaires can be linked to any DALI system, however our full addressable emergency lighting system incorporates a discrete touchscreen facility with the potential of up to 120 luminaires being controlled and monitored by each touchscreen. Each touchscreen is preloaded with its own software and provides a fully DALI emergency compliant system, a number of options are available allowing each touchscreen to operate as a stand alone system or alternatively on larger installations these touchscreen panels can be networked together via the building’s ethernet and back to a central monitoring PC. Up to 10 DALI panels can be networked, enabling a maximum of 1200 emergency luminaires to be monitored.
The system is unique in that until the luminaires have been commissioned onto the DALI network they revert to standard Autotest, this means that even before the DALI system has been commissioned that the site will have a fully compliant emergency lighting scheme complete with Autotest.
The DALI function is available on almost all of Ringtail’s luminaires; please refer to each individual datasheet for full specifications. We also are able to offer a full range of DALI emergency conversions to existing and other manufacturer’s luminaires.
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